More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 4

Hearne, p. 299, in this there is a double treasure; the first in an iron pot with a Latin inscription, which the pedlar, whose name is John Chapman, does not understand.

Who acts: Hearne, Latin inscription, name, John · What happens: be, pedlar, not understand, name · To what, where: John

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hearne, Latin inscription, name, John), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hearne	Hearne	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 p.	punct
3	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hearne	appos
4	299	299	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 p.	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hearne	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Hearne	nmod
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 treasure	det
11	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 treasure	amod
12	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 first	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 first	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 treasure	amod
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 pot	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pot	det
18	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pot	compound
19	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 first	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 inscription	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 inscription	det
22	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 inscription	amod
23	inscription	inscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pot	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pedlar	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 pedlar	nsubj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pedlar	det
27	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 inscription	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 John	punct
29	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 name	nmod:poss
30	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 John	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 John	cop
32	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 pedlar	appos
33	Chapman	Chapman	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 John	flat
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 understand	punct
35	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 understand	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 understand	advmod
37	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 treasure	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	Hearne in this		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pedlar		a Latin inscription and the pedlar			tree rules
3	is a	present	John's name	John		tree rules
4	not understand	present · do-support				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	name		John			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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